When you've been afraid of something for long enough and it comes to pass, the terrible thing is a release. For in the belly of the badness there is no more fear.

A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.

You can call it innocence, or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of the good-hearted: she assumed that everyone else was just like her.

My own apathy is bone chilling.

In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.

Funny how you dig yourself into a hole by the teaspoon.

It's far less important to me to be liked these days than to be understood.

But what's so great about being a perfectionist?... You do all this work, and then the stuff you've made just pisses you off.

Giving anyone anything takes courage, since so many presents backfire. A gift conspicuously at odds with your tastes serves only to betray that the benefactor has no earthly clue who you are.

Reading time is precious. Don't waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life, can dangerously turn you off the activity altogether.

The Web, the great time-killer that had replaced conspicuously passive television with its seductive illusion of productivity.

Age is only a number. Keep an active life.

Get rid of grudges and negativity in your thoughts by replacing them with positive thoughts. You deserve a beautiful life.

It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.

Anything that's left that's remotely like wilderness should be left strictly alone. We have no business there any more. It's not going to save you to go in and cut the last old-stand forests.

So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration

People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.

Doubt springs from the mind; faith is the daughter of the soul.

When a man's life is under debate, The judge can ne'er too long deliberate.

As a kid, I played a lot of one-on-none.

When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling.